Vol. XVIII, no. 2 - Southern Garden History Society

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Magnolia
Magnolia grandiflora
Bulletin of the Southern Garden
The Laurel Tree of Carolina
Catesby’s
History Society
Natural History, 1743
Vol. XVIII
No. 2
Spring 2003
Drayton Hall and the Michaux Connection
By Barbara Orsolits, Atlanta, Georgia
Courtesy of Drayton Hall, a National Trust Historic Site
Drayton Hall, a National Historic Landmark and a National Trust for Historic Preservation site, is one of the finest examples of
Georgian-Palladian architecture in the United States. It is located 10 miles northwest of Charleston, South Carolina on the Ashley
River. Drayton Hall’s edifice has stood virtually untouched
since John Drayton designed and constructed it in 1738, as
his vision of a gentleman’s countryseat.
Although Drayton Hall remains totally preserved and
has never been renovated or modernized, little remains of
the landscape and gardens from the eighteenth century.
There is virtually no documentation, other than secondary
accounts regarding the landscape and gardens from John
Drayton’s ownership.
Charles Drayton, the second owner of Drayton Hall,
kept a diary from 1784 to 1820, which provides a more
detailed picture of how the landscape and gardens were laid
out. This material, in addition to the landscape and garden
history, also provides a good overview of life at an
eighteenth-century southern plantation. The diary and
papers chronicle the relationship between Drayton Hall and
the French explorer and botanist, André Michaux. Although
historians knew Michaux had given shrubs to Charles
Drayton Hall - landside view 2002.
Drayton, there was never documentation that established what this
included. From entries in Charles Drayton’s diary and his plant lists,
his close friendship with Michaux is evident. Charles Drayton also
makes references in his diary to a collection of plants given to Drayton
Hall by the Scottish explorer and Botanist, John Fraser.
Charles Drayton had been trained as a physician in Edinburgh,
Scotland. Along with his medical school training he also had become
acquainted with botanical science. Botany was to be a lifelong passion
of Drayton’s that proved very useful in his work as the owner and
manager of Drayton Hall and several additional plantations. Charles
Drayton returned to Charleston in 1771, after completing medical
school, along with Arthur Middleton and Thomas Pinckney.
In 1774 he married Hester Middleton, the daughter of Henry
Middleton. Charles, through this marriage, created family ties with not
only the Middleton’s of Middleton Place but also the Pinckney’s of
Snee Farm. Hester’s sister, Sarah, had married Charles Cotesworth
Pinckney in 1773.1 The Middleton and Pinckney plantations were
well known for the beauty of their landscape and gardens. Both
Inside this Issue
Page 7
A Token of Remembrance–Daffodils in Cemeteries
Page 10
Our Old so-called “Butter and Eggs” Daffodil is
Likely ‘Derwydd’ not ‘Van Sion’
Page 12
The Elusive and Enigmatic Gloucester History
Page 14
Plant Introductions – Chinese Wisteria and Spanish
Cork Oak
Page 15
The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Program
Opens the Gate to the Best Private Gardens in
America
Page 16
Members in the News
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CALENDAR
Now through September 21, 2003. “Saving Mount Vernon:
The Birth of Preservation in America,” an exhibition at the
National Building Museum in Washington, DC; co-sponsored
by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association. The museum is
located at: 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20001. For
information call: (202) 272-2448 or visit their Web site at:
www.nbm.org
April 11-13, 2003. “Atlanta’s Landscape Legacy” – the 21st
Annual Meeting of the Southern Garden History Society. In
2003 the SGHS returns to Atlanta, the site of its 1983
inaugural meeting. The conference also coincides with the
height of dogwood season and the 67th annual Dogwood
Festival in Piedmont Park. Lectures will address Atlanta’s
garden and landscape history with particular attention to its
early 20th-century legacy. The conference features the works of
Neel Reid and Philip Shutze, two of Atlanta’s most notable
architects, as well as Frederick Law Olmsted, Ellen Shipman
and others who have contributed to Atlanta’s landscape legacy.
The meeting will focus also on southern garden literature and
writers such as Elizabeth Lawrence. The meeting is
headquartered at the Atlanta History Center (AHC), the city’s
premier history museum offering award-winning exhibits
about Atlanta and the South, thirty-three acres of gardens, the
historic Tullie Smith and Swan Houses, and the Cherokee
Garden Library, Center for the Study of Southern Garden
History. For information, contact Staci Catron-Sullivan at
(404) 814-4046; fax (404) 814-4175;
SCatronSullivan@AtlantaHistoryCenter.com. AHC is located
at 130 West Paces Ferry Road, NW. Web site:
www.atlantahistorycenter.com; telephone: (404) 814-4000.
May 10, 2003. “2003 Spring Garden Tour of Historic
Hillsborough, North Carolina,” sponsored by The Alliance for
Historic Hillsborough. Featured gardens include: Fairmont, the
Webb-Grunewald Garden, and the Alexander Dickson House
Garden. For further information, contact Cathleen Turner,
(919) 732-7741; cathleen@historichillsborough.org or visit the
Web site at: www.historichillsborough.org
May 15-August 31, 2003. “Central Park: A Sesquicentennial
Celebration.” In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the
legislation that designated as “a public place” the lands that
were to become New York’s Central Park, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art is mounting a special exhibition in the
American Wing focusing on the “Greensward” plans and
drawings of Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted. For
more information, visit www.metmusem.org
May 24, 2003. The Annual Open House of the Thomas
Jefferson Center for Historic Plants featuring heirloom roses,
dianthus, iris and other historic perennials at the center’s
nursery and headquarters at Tufton Farm. For more
information, call (434) 984-9816; e-mail:
pcornett@monticello.org or visit Monticello’s Web site at:
www.monticello.org
May 28-31, 2003. “Landscape Preservation on the Edge:
Historic Landscape Challenges on the Exurban Fringe,” the
25th Annual Meeting of the Alliance for Historic Landscape
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Preservation at ThorpeWood near Thurmont, Maryland, in
the Catoctin Mountains of central Maryland. Meeting will
include site visits to the State Arboretum of Virginia, Momcacy
National Battlefield, Frederick Town Historic District, and
travel to Point of Rocks, Maryland, Clarke County, and Mosby
Heritage Area. For more information, contact Barbara Wyatt at
wyattland@aol.com
June 8-20, 2003. “Preserving Jefferson’s Landscapes and
Gardens,” the seventh annual Historic Landscape Institute,
sponsored by the University of Virginia and the Thomas
Jefferson Foundation, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Participants
live on the historic Lawn of the University and attend an
intensive curriculum focusing on the landscapes and gardens of
Thomas Jefferson. For information, contact Peter Hatch, (434)
984-9836; phatch@monticello.org
September 25-27, 2003. “A Genius and His Legacy: Frederick
Law Olmsted in the South,” the 14th Conference on Restoring
Southern Gardens and Landscapes held at Old Salem, Inc. For
further information, contact Kay Bergey, (336) 721-7378;
bergeymk@wfu.edu; or write her at: Drawer F, Salem Station,
Winston-Salem, NC 27108.
October 2, 2003. “The Botanical Journey of Lewis and Clark,”
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. Lectures by Peter Hatch,
director of Monticello’s gardens and grounds, and Dr. James
Reveal, author of Gentle Conquest, and botanical scholar with
the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia on the unique
Lewis and Clark collection of original plant specimens from
the famed expedition. For more information, call (804) 2629887; or see the botanical garden education series Web site at:
www.lewisginter.org
October 24-25, 2003. “Texas Country Gardens – A Harvest of
Ideas,” annual Oktober Gartenfest at Winedale near Round
Top, Texas. Will include visits to Peaceable Kingdom Gardens
near Navasota, Texas and the private gardens of Tony and Kay
Scanapico and Gary and Angela McGowan near Round Top.
The University of Texas Center hosts this annual fall gardening
program for American History Winedale Division in
cooperation with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service of
the Texas A & M University System. Other participants
include the Herb Society of America, Pioneer Unit, the
International Festival-Institute at Round Top, and the Pioneer
Arts Foundation. For more information, contact SGHS
members Bill Welch, (979) 690-9551; e-mail: wcwelch@tamu.edu; or Mary Anne Pickens, (979) 732-5058; email: gravel@wcnet.net
April 23-25, 2004. The 22nd Annual meeting of the Southern
Garden History Society in New Orleans, Louisiana. The
meeting will be headquartered in the Historic French Quarter
and the entire St. Marie hotel has been reserved. Programs will
be held at the Historic New Orleans Collection facility. Tours
are planned for the French Quarter gardens and Uptown in the
Garden District. Mark your calendars and plan early for this
exciting meeting. For more information, contact Sally K.
Reeves at skrnona@cox.net or Betsy Crusel at: hapc@aol.com
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Drayton Hall…
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families were well acquainted with André Michaux and it is
believed he made gifts of plants to Middleton Place. One of the
World and extended the knowledge of North American native
plants. Michaux, in particular, would make a major
contribution to the landscape and gardens at Drayton Hall.
The landscape and gardens laid out by John Drayton earlier
in the century would have been at their full maturity when
Charles Drayton assumed ownership in 1784. John Drayton’s
design of both the landscape and house was intended to be a
symbol of his success and the position of prominence he
occupied in Charleston society. Charles Drayton had a different
vision for Drayton Hall. He began almost immediately to
develop Drayton Hall along the lines of a “ferme ornée” or
“ornamental farm.” Field grid drawings from Charles Drayton’s
papers illustrate the layout of Drayton Hall’s fields and gardens
that point to a ferme ornée landscape design. Charles Drayton’s
papers also contain notes that refer to Humphrey Repton and
the elements of a ferme ornée plan.
Drayton Hall - ca 1984 river view
plants discovered by Michaux, the fever tree, was named
Pinckneya in honor of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
During the Revolutionary War Drayton Hall was
occupied by the British but survived intact. John
Drayton had died in 1779 and had left Drayton Hall to
his fourth wife, Rebecca Perry Drayton. His many
marriages and his will were to set the stage for legal
battles amongst his surviving heirs. In 1783, Charles
Drayton assumed ownership of Drayton Hall but he
would be forced in the future to defend in the courts the
legality of his ownership. These legal battles would leave
Drayton Hall on precarious financial footing and would
require Charles Drayton to operate Drayton Hall with
an ever-watchful eye on his finances.
Drayton Hall - 1970s aerial view
Charles Drayton took up residence at Drayton Hall in
January of 1784.2 While in Scotland, Drayton’s views and
As early as 1712, the Englishman Joseph Addison had
approach to the world were profoundly affected by the
proposed a revolutionary gardening idea that was to have far
Enlightenment movement. The Enlightenment was a
reaching results. Addison proposed “why not a whole estate be
philosophical movement, which began in England at the end of
thrown into a kind of garden by frequent plantations a man
the seventeenth century and by the mid-eighteenth century had
might make a pretty landskip in his own possessions.”4 Some
become centered in France. It emphasized that knowledge was
scholars consider Mount Vernon and Monticello to be examples
both empirical and rational.3 From researching the Drayton
of the eighteenth-century ferme ornée in colonial America. At
Papers Collection, Charles Drayton emerges as a rationalist who
Monticello, Thomas Jefferson commented on this mingling of
adopted a practical approach to life and his management of
fields, vegetables, and flowers in this description “all are
Drayton Hall.
intermixed, the pleasure garden being merely a highly
The Enlightenment encouraged the development of science
ornamented walk through and round the divisions of the farm
and kitchen garden.”5 The ornamental field design utilizes
as a method for acquiring empirical knowledge and it acted as a
practical landscapes that are both attractive but also productive.
catalyst for fostering curiosity about the natural world.
By 1793, although the legal battles over Drayton Hall were
Eighteenth-century botanists and plant explorers such as a Mark
Catesby, André Michaux and John Fraser, explored the New
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Drayton Hall…
behind Charles Drayton, the resulting financial settlement
meant all properties including Drayton Hall had to be income
producing or provide provisions. Census records from 1790
show there were “41 Negroes” at Drayton Hall (throughout his
diaries, Charles Drayton refers to the slaves as “Negroes”), but
by the next census in 1800 this number had increased to 172.
Charles Drayton recorded in his diary the construction of new
slave housing based on the designs of the social reformer and
architect, Count Rumsford.6 Drayton Hall would never
produce as much rice or indigo as the other plantations owned
by Drayton but it would contribute provisions for both the
Drayton family and the slaves.
From the Drayton Collection Papers, Charles Drayton
recorded that he planted peas, lettuce, cabbage, spinach, and
radishes.7 In the coming months he also mentions turnips,
corn, and sweet potatoes as well as the sowing of wheat. In
were sending botanists to America for both exploration and to
send back specimens of the flora and fauna. André Michaux,
had been commissioned by the King of France to explore and
also develop a botanic garden. Michaux established his first
botanical garden in New York but the climate proved too harsh.
In 1786, he relocated the botanical garden to more temperate
Charleston, which was also advantageous for the many
individuals involved in horticulture and botany who lived there.
Additionally, there were a number of French Huguenots that
had immigrated to Charleston from France and Barbados that
provided Michaux with entrée to Charleston society. He
established himself quickly but soon realized he could not afford
the expense of living in the city. Michaux rented a house in
Goosecreek along with 111 acres of land that was to prove both
economical and also very productive for his horticulture and
botanical work.10
Property maps reveal that Michaux’s French Botanical
Garden was adjacent to property owned by Charles Drayton
and documentation from the Drayton Papers Collection (DPC)
indicates that Michaux had a major influence on the landscape
and gardens at Drayton Hall during this period. The first
reference to André Michaux in the DPC is an entry from
Charles Drayton’s diary dated February 17, 1793. It describes a
visit to the gardens near the ten-mile house. The plants listed
are: yellow jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens), Chickasaw
plums, Judas or redbud in bloom and Viburnum tinus and green
tea. A March 6, 1793 entry mentions planting Michaux’s plants
and seeds. The DPC contains a list of the plants that Michaux
gave to Charles Drayton, titled “Catalogue of Seeds Sown in
Nursery,” showing Michaux’s generosity and the great diversity
of plants he offered.
keeping with his “ornamental field” landscape, the bowling
green was planted with hay, the orchard with rye, the octagon
received broad-leaf spinach, and in the park the peach orchard
fence was planted with peas and hemp seed. Additionally,
strawberries joined cauliflower and asparagus in the gardens.
Because cotton did not show a profit, hay was planted, but
Drayton continued to experiment with various types of cotton
that might be profitable. From 1790 on, Drayton’s major crops
were corn, peas, and potatoes.8
Figs, melons, peaches, and plums were harvested from
Drayton Hall’s orchard and gardens. Charles Drayton had
carefully tended 118 olive stones sent by Thomas Jefferson to
the South Carolina Agricultural Society in 1791, but none
survived.9 In researching Drayton’s diaries and papers a picture
emerges of a man constantly working to improve the
productivity of his landholdings and always willing to
experiment with new plant discoveries. The material from the
Charles Drayton papers titled “Flora” gives in extensive detail
his work in botany at Drayton Hall.
During this time period a number of European countries
4
Drayton Hall - undated photo
Drayton Hall - front up close.
Throughout Michaux’s life, one piece of bad luck seems to
have followed him. Michaux’s horses would die on his journeys,
which in the eighteenth century was a serious impediment to
both travel and exploration.11 Charles Drayton on November
10, 1794 refers to a visit by Michaux and the death of
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Drayton Hall…
Michaux’s horse, which Drayton replacement so he could
continue on his trip. As a gesture of appreciation, Michaux sent
nine rare plants. In an entry dated, February 23, 1795, Charles
Drayton mentions going to Michaux’s French Botanical Garden
and returning with Viburnum tinus, yellow jasmine, woodbine,
and flowering almond.
Michaux’s French Botanical Garden thrived from 1786 to
1796 but after the French Revolution the government could not
provide the financial support it had in the past. The French
government ordered Michaux to terminate his work and put the
garden up for sale. By August of 1796, Michaux had left the
Charleston area and returned to Europe. His fortunes depleted,
Michaux joined an expedition to the island of Mauritius in the
Indian Ocean. He left the Mauritius expedition and sailed to
Madagascar to study plant life. Michaux, accustomed to a busy
pace in his previous explorations, did not heed warnings
regarding Madagascar’s unhealthy tropical climate. Worn out
Courtesy of the Drayton Papers Collection
Gibbes sketch of the orangerie
and laurel. He notes also that, “Michaux had ordered the
particulars of his garden to be distributed to two or three
gentleman.”
In March of 1802, Charles Drayton records a visit from
Michaux’s son François to Drayton Hall. Drayton mentions
François recounting to him “that his father, André Michaux had
been shipwrecked off the coast of Holland and barely survived.”
In the entries from Charles Drayton’s diary for this period there
is no mention of Michaux’s death in Madagascar. It is possible
that François may not have been informed of his father’s passing
before he left France for America. François had been sent to
close and dismantle the French Botanical Garden in Charleston
by Napoleon’s administration. He oversaw the sale of the site to
a private individual on behalf of the French government. At the
conclusion of his business in Charleston, he was to go on a
and far from home, Michaux succumbed to a malarial fever and
died in 1802. His great work on the oaks of America, L’Histoire
des Chenes d’ Amerique, was published in 1801. Along with his
other work, Flora Boreali-Americana, Michaux’s reputation was
established as one of the most important and influential
botanists in North America during the late eighteenth
century.12
After Michaux departed Charleston, the French Botanical
Garden remained along with a number of flower and shrub
specimens. There is some documentation to suggest that a
neighboring planter watched over the Botanical Garden during
this period.13 Charles Drayton, in an entry from May of 1801,
provides one of the oldest detailed descriptions of the garden
after Michaux left. He describes several young trees bearing pale
red flowers that he identifies as Rhododendron maximum. He
says, “Michaux had sent him a specimen of the rhododendron
but it perished.” Besides the rhododendron, Drayton mentions
pines or firs, Kalmia (mountain laurel), Pinckneya, Viburnum sp.
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Gibbes sketch of landfront including flankers
Letter from Michaux to C. Drayton 1794
geographic and exploratory mission in the American wilderness.
Like his father, François André Michaux would become famous
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Drayton Hall…
1890 Charles Drayton and family riverfront closeup
for his botanical work and explorations. In 1808, he returned to
France to complete the monumental work, Histoire des Arbres
Forestiers de l’Amerique Septentrionale. The first of the three
volumes appeared in 1810 and the next two in 1813.14
Charles Drayton’s diary describes several other visits to the
French Botanical Garden, the last being in March of 1808. From
his descriptions the gardens had become badly overgrown but
there
were
still
[The previous article was prepared as a graduate project
under the direction of Jim Cothran, adjunct professor, in
Georgia State University’s Heritage Preservation Program.]
Shrubs by Michaux
remnants
of its former collection of ornamental flowers and shrubs. It
appears that on some of his visits he was able to obtain cuttings
from some including: Pinckneya pubens (fever tree), Kalmia, and
Rhododendrons.
Charles Drayton mentions in several entries of his diary that
the Scottish explorer John Fraser also presented him with plants.
In March of 1809, he gave Drayton a Magnolia michauxia [?],
M. fraseri, M. pyramidata [M. fraseri pyramidata], M. acuminata,
Acer saccharinum, Blandfordia, Rhododendron maximum, and
Kalmia. Fraser made several other visits to Drayton Hall until
his departure for England in 1810. He died shortly after his
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return to England in 1811.
Charles Drayton continued his botanical
work at Drayton Hall until his death in 1820.
Today, little remains of the landscape and
plants from the Michaux period. With the
recent digitalization of the DPC, André
Michaux’s botanical contributions to Drayton
Hall are now being documented. Drayton
Hall’s preservation policy maintains the house
and landscape “as is,” neither restored nor
reconstructed to an earlier or specific period.
What remains today of the landscape is the
entrance alleé, the river walk with swales on
either side, and the various drainage features
that make up the skeleton of the original eighteenth-century
axial plan. These landscape elements are in harmony with the
rest of the site and enhance the presentation of the house.
Charles Drayton continued his botanical work at Drayton
Hall until his death in 1820. Today, little remains of the
landscape and plans from the Michaux period. With the recent
digitalization of the Drayton Papers Collection, André
Michaux's botanical influence has been uncovered. The
Michaux Connection is an important element of the larger
initative at Drayton Hall to re-evaluate its historic landscape
through the development of a landscape master plan, which is
due to be completed in the spring of 2003.
1 Dorothy Griffin, The Eighteenth-Century Drayton’s of
Drayton Hall (Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1985),
335.
2 Griffin, 351.
3 Phillip Pregill and Nancy Volkman, Landscapes in
History (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1998) 416.
4 William Howard Adams, Jefferson’s Monticello (New York:
Abbeville Press, 1983) 177.
5 Adams, 178.
6 Griffin, 363.
7 Charles Drayton Diary, February 14, 1794.
8 CDD, February 3 and 12, August 16, October 26, and
May 7, 1784, and June 25, 1789.
9 CDD, June 18, 1791; July 4, 1793; February 3, 1795.
10 Henry Savage Jr. and Elizabeth J. Savage, André and
François André Michaux (Charlottesville: University of Virginia
Press, 1986) 54.
11 Savage and Savage, 150.
12 Ann Leighton, American Gardens of the Nineteenth
Century, “For Comfort and Affluence” (Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 1987) 31-33.
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A Token of Remembrance–Daffodils in Cemeteries
By Sara L. Van Beck, Atlanta, Georgia
Courtesy of Linda Van Beck, 2003
One of the best ways to study the cultural aspects of American
cemeteries is to observe the hardy, long-lived cultivated plants that
have perennialized over time. This article focuses on historic daffodils
found primarily in cemeteries of the Deep South, which were planted
c.1850 to c.1920, coinciding with the “rural cemetery” movement
and the Victorian era in America.
The rural cemetery movement saw the creation of community
cemeteries in response to the needs of the growing population, which
were rapidly exceeding the available space in local church graveyards.
These new cemeteries were meant to be inviting places for reflection
and remembrance, with idyllic landscaping, winding roads, and
wrought iron fences around
family plots. Beginning in
the early twentieth century
a new movement in
American cemetery design
occurred, namely the
“lawn-park” design (South
Carolina Cemetery
Preservation Guidelines,
1997), featuring open
expanse of grass lawn with
orderly rows of gravestones
for easy maintenance,
which shunned the
Chinese Sacred Lily
landscape plantings
common in earlier cemeteries. In older rural cemeteries and small
family burial grounds, many historic daffodil plantings (along with
other cemetery floral plantings) have been lost due to overzealous
grounds maintenance and the general vagaries of time. Early hybrid,
historic and species daffodils were able to naturalize and/or
perennialize because of their genetic fortitude, and many still
continue to hold on.
In the Victorian era, the daffodil was ascribed funerary
symbolism as with many other natural objects. Both affluent whites
and African Americans (presumably post-Emancipation) took up the
daffodil symbol as a token of remembrance for the dead. My research
did not find evidence for this symbolism to pre-date the romantic
Victorian period. There is some tenuous evidence to suggest that
African cultures may have been predisposed to use specific plant in
cemeteries (South Carolina Cemetery Preservation Guideline, 1997),
and so adopting daffodil symbolism from the white culture is
certainly plausible.
The Internet posts a number of reference guides to historic
headstone carvings and includes information on daffodil carvings and
their symbolic meaning(s) to Victorian America. One such site
covers the history of Rochester, New York,
http://www.vintageviews.org/vv-tl/index.htm “Rochester’s History:
An Illustrated Time Line.” It includes information on the history of
Victorian symbolism in headstone carvings, and lists the daffodil as
signifying “death of youth, desire, art, grace, beauty, deep regard” (see
Web page Glossary of Victorian Cemetery Symbolism, Plants,
Daffodils). A second Web page, posted for The Hope Cemetery
Guide in Barre, Vermont, notes a carved daffodil on a family
headstone as symbolizing “Regard and Desire” (www.centralvt.com/visit/cemetery). The Hope Cemetery was established in 1895
and noted for its wide array of granite memorial design and skilled
craftsmanship.
While many cemeteries around the country have Web sites,
often the landscape plantings are not discussed much past a few trees
or the general topography (see the Web page “Links to resources on
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cemetery history and preservation” at
www.portifos.com/cemeteries.html#history as a good starting place to
find specific cemeteries). A few cemeteries in North Carolina,
Virginia, and Texas have sites with information on historic daffodil
plantings as well as one in Oklahoma created by an individual
documenting her genealogical history.
During a clean up of a neglected cemetery in old Durham,
North Carolina, members of the Old West Durham Neighborhood
Association found historic daffodils in the Erwin Mills cemetery
(www.owdha.org/cemclean.htm). Established in 1893, the cemetery
served a mixed community of white and African-American cotton
mill workers. As burial plots were free for mill workers, interments
took place mostly through the 1930s. Finding the hardy daffodils led
to a planting effort by residents to place more daffodils in the historic
cemetery the following year.
The article “Cemetery Plantings of the Bethlehem Lutheran
Church, Round Top, Texas,” (www.herbsocietystu.org/bible_herbs.htm) discusses the plantings of this German
settlers church founded in 1866 and possibly the oldest Lutheran
church in Texas. The one narcissus inventoried at the cemetery is
described as Chinese Sacred Lily for its common name, but the
inventory then lists two botanical names for ‘Chinese Sacred Lily’,
namely “Narcissus tazetta orientalis” and “Narcissus tazetta italicus.”
The article does not state whether the flowers were found associated
with specific interments or simply as background design landscaping
material. The South Texas Unit of The Herb Society of America
sponsors this Web page, however, it appears that the historic plants
inventory for the church was reprinted from the article “Blumen Auf
Dem Grab (Flowers on the Grave): Round Top Cemetery” by Dr.
William C. Welch and Greg Grant (Magnolia IX, no. 3 (Spring
1993): 6-8).
The Old City Cemetery of Lynchburg, Virginia, under the
guidance of Jane White, has an active preservation consortium; the
group has planted a wide array of trees, shrubs, and flowers in
keeping with its landscape preservation plan. Further, the group
planted nineteenth-century daffodils in an arboretum, namely:
‘Rijnveld’s Early Sensation’, ‘Carlton’, Narcissus ‘Telamonius Plenus’,
Butter and Eggs, Narcissus x medioluteus
(www.lynchburgbiz.com/occ/index.html). Scott Kunst, owner of Old
House Gardens heirloom bulbs, recommended these cultivars and
supplied them to the cemetery.
Russell Studebaker, in his article “Cherokee Daffodils” in the
March/April 2003 issue of Horticulture magazine, notes daffodils in
Oklahoma associated with the Cherokee. He lists five different
cultivars found at Cherokee grave sites near Tahlequah, namely ‘Van
Sion’ (‘Telamonious Plenus’), Campernelle (N. x odorus), N.
pseudonarcissus, Early Louisiana (N. jonquilla) and the double “Butter
and Eggs.” Studebaker was informed by a local resident that the
cemetery did not get its first mowing until the end of May, thus
allowing sufficient time for the bulbs to build up energy stores for the
next year, and so survive. As an aside, Dr. Anthony Paredes, Regional
Ethnographer with the National Park Service, suggests that this
practice by the Cherokee is not a “native” tradition, but rather one
acquired from the dominant Victorian period Euro-American culture.
The South Carolina Cemetery Preservation Guidelines, by Susan
H. McGahee and Mary W. Edmonds (1997, So. Car. Dept of
Archives and History, State Historic Preservation Office, ISBN 1880067-43-9, at www.state.sc.us/scdah/hstcm.pdf), is a detailed
cemetery preservation “how to” book for planning preservation
documentation and restoration work. Written in a way to serve both
dedicated, novice community activists as well as trained professionals
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Daffodils in Cemeteries
working in the broad field of historic preservation, the document
includes a brief but interesting history of American cemetery practices as
well as how to produce a Master Plan (recording features, preparing a
site map, photographic record, developing a maintenance plan for
landscape and structural features). The history section includes
information on the symbolic uses of plants in landscapes for both white
and African-American cemeteries (with particular mention of
symbolism held over from the African area of origin for slaves), with
daffodils planted as symbols of rebirth or resurrection. For comparative
purposes, it states that some African cultures believe the spirits of the
dead remain with the living and that certain plants impact the spirits
actions; thus, thorny yucca and cactus were planted to hold the
deceased’s spirit from wandering around the cemetery. The guide also
discusses the use of plants for delineating graves and for identifying lost
structural features of a cemetery.
British and European references also lend insight to historic
daffodil plantings in cemeteries. The Flora and Fauna of Boston Cemetery
Old Part (Martin Potts, Cemetery Manager, January 2000,
http://www.boston.gov.uk/web042000/downloads/flora.pdf) includes a
plant observation list created in 1993/1994 (by Sandra Hull, RSPB
South Lincs Group), which mentions “wild daffodils (Narcissus
pseudonarcissus)” and “daffodil cultivars and crosses.” There is no indepth discussion of the landscape plan of the Boston cemetery
(established in 1854) and whether or not it has changed significantly
since its creation or if any changes have occurred in the plantings. The
Web site for “The City of London Cemetery” (Paul Ferris, 2000, The
Wren Conservation and Wildlife Group,
http://www.wrengroup.fsnet.co.uk/COL.htm) notes the cemetery,
initiated in 1854, is
considered a fine example of
Victorian cemetery design.
An array of daffodil varieties
was incorporated into the
original design and not with
specific interments. Variety
names are not provided;
they are simply referred to
as “many specimens of
garden daffodils Narcissus
ssp.” The Internet site for a
Netherlands World War II
cemetery notes that children
Paperwhites
had planted narcissus on the
graves of Canadian soldiers. The
daffodil description is simply “white with orange heart.” I found this to
be of interest simply because the type of flower chosen was not a
standard yellow-on-yellow flower.
The following anecdotal data on daffodils observed in historic
cemeteries was obtained from long-time American Daffodil Society
(ADS) members and from other daffodil gardeners via the Internet. I
include Internet information from a large Georgia cemetery simply for
regional comparative purposes. It is important to note that these
perennialized or naturalized daffodils are not necessarily the same
flowers that would be found similarly adapted in old town gardens or at
abandoned farm and homesteads in the same areas. The areas are
presented in USDA Zone sequence from colder to warmer (following
the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map at
www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/hzm-sm1.html). A few of these daffodils
are illustrated in Scott Ogden’s 1994 work Garden Bulbs for the South;
others may be viewed at Internet sites for bulb merchants such as Old
House Gardens (www.oldhousegardens.com) and Brent and Becky’s
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Bulbs (www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com).
In north Alabama (Zones 7a to 7b), ‘Twin Sisters’ 13W-Y
(formerly biflorus now N. x medioluteus) was the daffodil of choice at
historic cemeteries (planted by both whites and African Americans).
The connection between this flower and cemeteries is reflected in its
regional common name, “Cemetery Ladies” and “Cemetery Whites.”
Secondary flowers used were N. jonquilla 13Y-Y (sometimes called
“Sweeties”) and older tazettas such as ‘Grand Primo’ (‘Grand Primo
Citronere’) 8W-Y and ‘Grand Monarque’ 8W-Y. Few paperwhites
(such as ‘Paper White Grandiflorus’ 8W-W) were ever noted (Weldon
Childers, 2002, personal communication), probably because
paperwhites would not be hardy this far North.
At Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery (Zones 7a to 7b) family
and friends of the deceased planted daffodils, as well as trees, shrubs and
other flowers, soon after burial as part of the grieving process, a custom
that still prevails. The cemetery was established in 1850 as the main
cemetery for the city (http://oaklandcemetery.com). Daffodil varieties
noted include the double yellow ‘Butter and Eggs’ (‘Orange Phoenix’
4Y-O) and Pheasant’s Eye (N. poeticus). These plantings resulted in
daffodils scattered about the cemetery. Unfortunately, clumps of
daffodils have dwindled and disappeared totally in recent memory.
Thus, the Georgia Daffodil Society has launched an identification
project at the cemetery to identify the varieties and their locations
within the historic landscape, with the ultimate end goal of sparing the
daffodils from mowing by the grounds crews. A recent beautification
project by cemetery staff planted “King Alfred type” bulbs [which
means simply big yellow trumpet daffodils] at the Watchman’s House
(Kevin Kuharic, personal communication, 2002). Conversely, the Web
page for the Memory Hill Cemetery (established in 1809) in
Milledgeville (Georgia’s capital city from 1807 to 1868 and in Zone 7b)
discusses at length trees, shrubs, and flowers planted as part of the
landscape and as memorials, but daffodils are not mentioned
http://oldcapitol.gcsu.edu/MemoryHill/default1.htm.
Piedmont South Carolina has its own array of memorial daffodils
found in historic cemeteries. These include N. x tenuior 13W-Y, two
strains of N. pseudonarcissus 13Y-Y (a long neck and a short neck strain)
N. medioluteus (‘Twin Sisters’), and early historic doubles ‘Butter and
Eggs’ 4Y-O (yellow petals with yellowish-orange petaloids) and ‘Orange
Phoenix’ 4W-O (white petals with yellowish-orange petaloids). The
most commonly observed flowers are N. x tenuior first, followed by N.
pseudonarcissus (Wordsworth’s daffodil), probably the most common
historic daffodil found in the uplands (Barbara Tate, personal
communication, 2003).
N. moschatus 13W-W (sometimes called “Silver Bells”) and “Twin
Sisters” or “Cemetery Ladies” are the most commonly observed
daffodils in historic cemeteries in Arkansas (Zones 6b through 8a, but
primarily in southern Arkansas Zones 7b and 8a). Also found are the
yellow daffodils N. jonquilla 13Y-Y and N. x odorus 13Y-Y
(“Campernelle jonquil”). Most daffodils found seem to be surviving in
spite of grounds clearing maintenance efforts, so that many are growing
along side the cemeteries and not within the grounds proper. As a
result, the soil conditions the daffodils are found in closely resemble
gravel. No differences between African American and white cemetery
plantings have been observed to date. N. moschatus also has been
observed in historic cemeteries in Georgia and South Carolina (Roxane
Daniel, personal communication, 2002).
Historic daffodils observed in northwestern Louisiana cemeteries
(Zone 8a) include ‘Grand Primo’ (‘Grand Primo Citronere’) 8W-Y,
‘Grand Monarque’ 8W-Y and N. italicus 13W-Y (Celia Jones, personal
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In eastern Texas (Zones 7b to 9a, but mostly Zones 8a and 8b),
between cultural groups of settlers, freed African Americans, etc.? Are
historic African-American cemeteries reflect reliance upon fragrant
there differences in what was planted based upon economic status, size
species and wild hybrids with plantings of N. italicus 13W-Y, N. x
of the cemetery, etc.? Are those flowers surviving today a skewed
odorus (“Campernelli” or “Campernelle jonquil”) 13Y-Y, N. jonquilla
statistical artifact of a shade-induced culling out of full-sun cultivars? A
13Y-Y, and the rare to occasional N. pseudonarcissus subsp.
tangential speculation point could be exactly which “Grand Primo” is
pseudonarcissus 13Y-Y and “Twin Sisters” (Keith Kridler, personal
planted where by region–is it the one with white petals or the one with
communication, 2002). Another daffodil enthusiast noted taking slides
yellow petals? Within Zone 9, does one find daffodils in cemeteries but
of “Grand Primo” 8W-Y, N. italicus 13W-Y and N. jonquilla 13Y-Y in
only in Texas and not southern Louisiana or central Florida? Are there
Texas cemeteries (Greg Grant, personal communication, 2002. See also
many cemeteries in North Carolina, Tennessee, or other northerly
his archived articles on Texas perennialized daffodils at
tiered southern states where
www.plantanswers.com/arcadia_archives.htm).
perennialized daffodils
In old cemeteries near Tallahassee, Florida, (Zone 8b), one
appear in larger, landscaped
nearly always finds a few paperwhites or N. italicus 13W-Y
community cemeteries or in
holding on in the dappled shade; another flower found in the
smaller churchyards or
old City cemetery is Chinese Sacred Lily (N. tazetta subsp.
family burial grounds? What
lacticolor). Daffodils have been found in the old Tallahassee city
about Ohio and other
cemetery as well as at a small African-American church
northern states? If daffodils
graveyard east of Tallahassee. Groundskeepers of the old city
appeared on the gravestones
cemeteries have been warned not to pull daffodil foliage because
in the North, did anyone
of damaging the bulbs. In general for north Florida, flowers
actually plant them in the
planted in remembrance are found more often in small Africancemetery? The author
American church graveyards than in community or church
welcomes any further
Narcissus italicus
cemeteries designated for whites (Linda Van Beck, personal
information the readers
might offer.
A number of planting locations were observed in historic
During the finalization of this article, I had to travel to
cemeteries in North Florida and South Georgia. These were: Adjacent
southwestern Ontario, Canada (Zones 5a and 5b), for a family funeral.
to the headstone, either front or back; along the top of the grave slab;
On my travels I met with a monument carver, who’d been in business
around the interment, as a border; within a stone grave border, such as
for many years, and decided to continue my line of inquiry. He had
for children; and in a row along the inside of the family plot wall.
been to numerous small community cemeteries in the region, many of
Unfortunately, no particular planting location seems to have afforded
which date back to the 1890s and earlier (1850s). He indicated that
bulb foliage protection from the evils of mowing. These planting
daffodils were often planted with specific interments in the past and
locations were observed at historic city cemeteries in Tallahassee,
that the tradition still continues. In order to survive, the bulbs were
Thomasville, Apalachicola, and to a lesser degree, at Oakland Cemetery
planted deeply and very close to the headstone, with often some soil
in Atlanta.
preparation required, and then the foliage had to somehow escape the
The repeated appearance of white daffodils at first seems odd,
grounds maintenance crew. He indicated that both yellow and white
given the current general preference for yellow colored flowers.
daffodils could be found, and that he had never noticed any planting
Traditionally, however, white has been the color associated with death
patterns based on religious denomination (Verne Rumble, Woodstock
(such as wearing white flower corsages on Mother’s Day instead of
Monuments, personal communication, 2002).
colored flowers, to signify that one’s mother had passed away), and
The planting of daffodils in memory or honor of the deceased
given how tradition-conscious most Southerners are, this color
continues today. Municipalities, churches, and civic groups sponsor
preference should not come as a real surprise. Also, some of the white
many cemetery-planting projects in memory of individuals or as a
flowers in the South are more tolerant of shade, so as old cemeteries and
general beautification projects. Of the more recent, large-scale plantings
burial grounds became more shaded over the decades as their trees grew,
of daffodils, one of the most notable is Lake View Cemetery and its
those yellow daffodils requiring full sun would likely have been “shaded
Daffodil Hill in Cleveland, Ohio (www.lakeviewcemetery.com). The
out.”
cemetery contains over 100,000 daffodil bulbs, planted in a three-acre
There also are some notable differences in cultivars observed in
area as an on-going project since the 1940s. The current movement of
these areas based upon the cold requirements of the specific flowers. For
planting daffodils in memoriam took a nationally visible turn with the
instance, ‘Grand Monarque’, N. x medioluteus (“Cemetery Ladies”) and
planting of one million daffodils in New York City as a memorial to
N. moschatus do not thrive at all in Zone 8b (N. x medioluteus rarely
those individuals who lost their lives as a result of the September 11
blooms in the April heat in north Florida), whereas paperwhites as a
terrorist attacks (“The Daffodil Project,” initiated by Partnerships for
group are probably a bit too tender to really thrive in Zone 7a. It also is
Parks; see the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s web page at
interesting to note the use of fragrant yellow flowers by Texas African
www.bbg.org/daffodilwatch/index.html).
Americans, while African Americans in northern Alabama seem to have
used N. xmedioluteus more frequently. How much of this comparative
This article is revised from a submission to The Daffodil Journal,
color and fragrance preference is culturally derived and how much of it
American Daffodil Society
is botanical reality (e.g., insufficient cold weather in the observed Texas
Copyright 2003, Sara L. Van Beck
cemeteries to make “Cemetery Ladies” happy) is speculation.
This study has led to many questions. How prevalent was the
[Editor’s note: Thanks go to Scott Kunst and Dr. Art Tucker for
planting of daffodils in Victorian period rural/community cemeteries
suggestions and help with nomenclature.]
and in family burial grounds? Are there differences in chosen cultivars
Vol. XVIII, No. 2
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Our Old so-called “Butter and Eggs” Daffodil is Likely
‘Derwydd’ not ‘Van Sion’
Ilustration by John Parkinson, 1629
By Arthur O. Tucker, Delaware State University, Dover
For many years, I followed the conventional wisdom that the
common sloppy double green and yellow daffodil of graveyards and
old farmhouse gardens, often called “Butter and Eggs” by the locals, is
‘Van Sion’ (yes, I realize that the real ‘Butter and Eggs’ is actually a
selection of Narcissus ? incomparabilis). Sure, our green and yellow
daffodil differs from the commercial Dutch offerings of ‘Van Sion,’
but I assumed that this was cultural. The commercial form has better
form and does not show slashes
of green; the commercial form
also shows a double cup on the
first year after transplanting, but
then goes to a full double yellow
daffodil in subsequent years.
Then, in 1996, Scott Kunst
(Old House Gardens, Ann
Arbor, MI) was exhibiting at the
American Daffodil Society’s show
in Baltimore and asked me to
bring some daffodils from my
garden. I stopped along the way
to supplement my meager
bouquets from a row of double
daffodils at an abandoned
farmhouse on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland. When I arrived at
Mrs. Wilmer’s Great Double
the show, two British
Daffodil
nurserymen chided me for
application of the name ‘Van
Sion’ for these daffodils. They said the common, sloppy green and
yellow daffodil from our gardens was definitely not ‘Van Sion.’ When
I asked what it really was, they just shrugged their shoulders.
At first, I took this as so much British arrogance, then, quite by
accident, a picture in Country Life (Anonymous 1995) leaped out at
me under the headlines “Ragged riches of a rare Welsh daffodil”:
This remarkably disheveled looking specimen
is the rare Derwydd daffodil, which flowers late —
from mid March — in the Twyi and Cennen
valleys near Llandeilo, Dyfed. It is notoriously
difficult to find, but has been recorded as
occurring in the vicinity of ‘Derwydd’ for the past
300 years, where it grows wild in south-facing,
sheep-grazed, sloping pastures. With its ragged,
greenish petals and unusual globular buds, it is
quite distinct from the old, cottage-garden double
daffodil known as Van Sion. In fact, botanists
believe the Derwydd daffodil to be a double
mutant form of the Tenby daffodil, Narcissus
pseudonarcissus obvallaris.
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The Tenby daffodil (N. obvallaris Salisb.) is the national symbol
of Wales, so I immediately purchased The Tenby Daffodil by David
Jones (1992). No mention is made, however, of a double form or
‘Derwydd’. Meanwhile, I tried to find out the inspiration for the
article in Country Life and, in 2001, I found her: Dr. Caroline Palmer,
an expert in human sleep, Paleozoic animal fossils, and gardens.
Caroline very graciously scanned a number of obscure articles for me,
including some ‘Derwydd’ daffodils collected in Wales. As I was later
to find out, the article in Country Life may have helped sell a magazine
but was a bit of hyperbole, and the ‘Derwydd’ daffodil is actually
much more common.
The first one who seems to have written on this daffodil was
Charles Tanfield Vachell in 1894. He devotes almost four pages to this
daffodil, “styled by Mr. Burbridge ‘Thomas’ Virescent Daffodil’ of
Penylan, so named after Mr. Thomas H. Thomas, of Cardiff, who first
noticed it.” Vachell says:
It is by no means a handsome flower, but
gives an impression of degeneracy, and reminds
one of the leaf-like reversions so common with the
petals of the polyanthus. It consists of from four to
six series of coloured coronal segments, between
each being a series of dwarfed greenish perianth
segments—these are much smaller than the
coronal segments and resembles the leaves—the
coronal segments themselves often take a more or
less green colour, and the general effect is to give
the flower a peculiar greenish or virescent
appearance. In the centre are several modified
stamens too confused for the accurate
determination either of their rank of botanical
position. Both pollen and ovules may be found
occasionally. With the coronal segments there exist
all sorts of gradations from the entirely undivided
state to complete division into its less compound
segments. In some instances the lobing is perfect
and exactly resembles the lobing of the Tenby
single daffodil, in others the lobing is continued to
form clefts, and in others the cleft extends into a
split
In 1907, Alan Stepney-Gulston of ‘Derwydd’ wrote of this
daffodil:
Narcissus obvallaris Plenus.— This is the old
“Derwydd” Daffodil, where it has grown in
perfusion for more than two hundred years, and
known as the “Virescent dwarf double Daffodil of
Derwydd.” Flowers, dwarf double; they do not
fall exactly under the description of any known
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Our Old so-called “Butter and Eggs” …
Ilustration by John Parkinson, 1629
variety, and it appears to be as interesting in its way
(says Dr. Vachell) as the Tenby daffodil; the
younger blooms are often virescent, sometimes
absolutely grass-green, some arrest of colour
development, taking place, the flower becomes
yellow very slowly. Mr. Burbridge says, ‘it is what I
call the coronal phase of the plant, i.e., the coronal
or trumpet segments are fully developed, and the
perianth segments are fully suppressed in their
growth, sometimes the reverse of this is true.’
Woods (1993) provided further descriptions and illustrations to
distinguish the ‘Derwydd’ from the ‘Van Sion’ daffodil. Jill Slee
Blackadder (1995): wrote of the so-called old-fashioned Shetland
garden daffodil: “They start off as green flowers, the petals and
trumpet staying green
until well open.”
Blackadder also found
these daffodils in
Valenciennes in
northern France:
“Locally called
‘jonquils’, these
daffodils proved to be
none other than the
very same Shetland
double, green-opening,
old fashioned
daffodils.” Caroline
Double Spanish Daffodil
Palmer (1997) wrote:
“Quite large numbers of
the ‘Derwydd’ form grow on the sloping meadow descending to the
neglected lake at Middletown Hall future site of the Welsh Botanical
Garden....” and ‘other countryside writers have drawn attention to
similar short, greenish, distorted daffodils in neglected corners of the
Celtic fringe, from the Shetland islands to inland Brittany.” Judyth
McLeond (private communication, 2001) also notes that the
‘Derwydd’ daffodil is naturalized in Australia.
I am still struggling to understand what passes as the ‘Van Sion’
and ‘Derwydd’ daffodils today in the older literature. Gerarde and
Parkinson described two very similar green and yellow daffodils. The
woodcuts for both are poor, but Parkinson’s illustration of
“Pseudonarcissus aureus Hispanicus flore pleno, the great double yellow
Spanish bastard Daffodill, or Parkinsons Daffodill” most resembles the
‘Derwydd’ of today. Vachell (1894) and Stepney-Gulston (1907)
quote various authors who found various double forms of the Tenby
daffodil naturalized in Wales and Scilly, so I suspect that these multiple
descriptions are all subtle variants of the ‘Derwydd’ daffodil.
In 1597, Gerarde described “Narcissus multiplex Gerardi, Gerrards
double Narcisse.” Johnson’s edition of 1633 says:
The next to this is that which from our
Author, the first observer thereof, is vulgarly called
Gerards Narcisse: the leaves and root do not much
differ from the ordinarie Daffodill, the stalk is
scarce a foot high, bearing at the top thereof a
floure very double; the sixe outmost leaves are of
the same yellow colour as the ordinarie one is;
those that are next are commonly as deepe as the
tube or trunke of the single one, and amongst
them are mixed also other paler coloured leaves,
with some green stripes here & there amongst
those leaves; these floures are sometimes all
contained in a trunk like that of the single one, the
sixe out-leaves excepted: other whiles this inclosure
is broke, and then the flour stands fair open like
that of the last described. Lobel in the second part
of his Adversaria tells, that our Author Master
Gerrard found this in Wiltshire, growing in the
garden of a poore woman, in which place a
formerly Cunning man (as they vulgarly terme
him) had dwelt.
Parkinson (1629): says of this daffodil:
The leaves of this double Daffodill are very
unto the single kinds, being of 2 whitish greene
colour, and somewhat broad, a little shorter and
narrower, yet stiffer than the former French kinde:
the stalk riseth up about a foote high, bearing at
the tope one very double flower, the outermost
leaves being of the same pale colour, that is to bee
seene in the wings of the single kinde; those that
stand next them, are some as deepe a yellow as the
trunke of the single, and others of the same pale
colour, with some greene stripes on the backe of
divers of the leaves; thus is the whole flower
variably intermixt with pale and deepe yellow, and
some greene stripes among them, when it is fully
open, the leaves dispersed and broken” and “The
last is assuredly first naturall of our owne
Countrey, for Mr. Gerrard first discovered it to the
world, finding it in a poore womans Garden in the
West parts of England, where it grew before the
woman came to dwell there, and, as I have heard
since, is naturall of the Isle of Wight.”
Parkinson (1629) also described another daffodil, “Pseudonarcissus
aureus Hispanicus flore pleno, the great double yellow Spanish bastard
Daffodill, or Parkinsons Daffodill”:
This double Spanish Daffodill hath divers
leaves rising from the roote, stiffer, narrower, and
not so whitish a greene colour as the former, but
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Our Old so-called “Butter and Eggs” …
more sullen or grayish, plainely resembling the
leaves of the single great kind, from whence this
hath risen: the stalke hereof likewise riseth almost as
high as it, and neare the height of the last recited
double, bearing one double flower at the toppe,
alwayes spread open, and never forming a double
trunke like the former, yet not so faire and large as
it, the outermost leaves whereof being of a greenish
colour at the first, and afterward more yellow, doe a
little turne themselves backe againe to the stalke, the
other leaves are some of the a pale yellow, and others
of a more gold yellow colour, those that stand in the
middle are smaller, and some of them shew as if
they were hollow trunked, so that they seeme to be
greenish, whitish, yellow, and gold yellow, all mixed
one among another: the roote is great, round, and
whitish on the inside, covered with darke coloured
skinnes or peelings. I thinke none ever had this
kinde before my selfe, nor did I my selfe ever see it
before the yeare 1618. for it is of mine own raising
and flowering first in my Garden.
Both these daffodils differ from the fully double, clear yellow
daffodil that Parkinson (1629) called “Pseudonarcissus aureus Anglicus
maximus, Mr. Wilmers great double Daffodill.” Parkinson noted of this
daffodil: “we first had from Vincent Sion, borne in Flanders, dwelling
on the Banke side.... And Mr. George Wilmer of Stratford Bowe
Esquire, in his lives time having likewise received it of him ....”
Haworth (1831) called this daffodil ‘Ajax Telemonius ?. grandiplenus,’
while Bowles (1934) called it ‘Van Sion,’ the name most used today.
LITERATURE CITED
Anonymous. 1995. “Ragged Riches of a Rare Welsh Daffodil.” Country Life
89(13): 88.
Blackadder, J. S. 1995. “A Golden Host,” Shetland Times April 16.
Bowles, E. A. 1934. A Handbook of Narcissus. Martin Hopkinson Ltd., London.
248 pp.
Gerarde, J. 1633. The Herball or Generall Historie of Plants. Rev. T. Johnson.
Adam Islip Joice Norton and Robert Whitakers, London. 1677 pp.
Haworth, A. H. 1831. A monograph on the subordo V. of Amaryllideae,
containing the Narcissineae. Tilling, Chelsea. 15 pp.
Jones, D. 1992. The Tenby Daffodil: The Remarkable Story of the true Welsh
Daffodil. Tenby Museum, Tenby, Pembrokeshire. 28 pp.
Palmer, C. 1997. Country notes — “The ‘Derwydd’ Daffodil.” Country Quest
April: 9.
Parkinson, J. 1629. Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. etc. Humfrey Lownes and
Robert Young, London. 628 pp.
Stepney-Gulston, A. 1907. “A Contribution Towards an Account of the Narcissi
of South Wales.” Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field
Club 56:113-115.
Vachell, C. T. 1894. “A Contribution Towards an Account of the Narcissi of
South Wales.” Cardiff Naturalists’ Society Report & Transactions 26(2): 81-94.
Woods, R. G. 1993. “The ‘Derwydd’ daffodil.” Botanical Society of the British
Isles Welsh Bulletin 56:9-11.
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The Elusive and Enigmatic
Gloucester Hickory
By Wesley Greene, Garden Historian, Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation
Last fall I was invited to visit the 17th-century
Toddsbury estate in Tidewater Virginia to see a very large
hickory, which according to family legend, Thomas Jefferson
knew. Toddsbury is part of the 700-acre estate patented by
Robert Todd in 1664. It is located on the North River in
Gloucester County, and was probably built by Thomas’s son,
Captain Thomas Todd in the last quarter of the 17th
century. Over the centuries the house had been added on to
several times and by 1794 the entire estate was inherited by
the Captains grandson, Philip Tabb. The Hickory was,
indeed, very old and very large, the question was; what kind
of hickory was it? The nuts were huge; in some ways it
resembled a mockernut but it wasn’t. I am pretty well
familiar with the local mockernuts, bitternuts and pignut
hickories. I have seen the occasional water and shagbark
hickory. This wasn’t any of them, so I went looking for
help.
I returned to Toddsbury in October with Donna Ware,
a taxonomist from the College of William and Mary and Bill
Apperson from the Virginia Department of Forestry and,
after much head scratching, Donna determined that it was
the shellbark hickory, Carya lanciniosa. This, in itself, was
exciting in that the Atlas of the Virginia Flora lists the
shellbark hickory as occurring only in Fairfax County,
Virginia although Donna has heard of another possible
example on the Gloucester-Matthews County Line.
From this revelation I examined the Jefferson
connection. Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book contains several
references to the Gloucester Hiccory. The first mention comes
in 1787 while Jefferson is in Paris. He writes Richard Cary,
in Virginia, requesting seeds from a wide variety of Native
American plants, including the Gloucester hickory. After
returning home, Jefferson first plants the Gloucester hickory
at Monticello in 1807.
In a January 1809 letter to Jefferson from Bernard
McMahon, a very well known and respected nurseryman in
Philadelphia, McMahon writes: “Mr. Michaux informed me
that there is a very large fruited kind of Hickory growing in
Glocester County, Va. which he takes to be a non described
species.” That same month Jefferson replies:
“The Gloucester hiccory nut, after which you
enquire, has I think, formerly spread extensively
over this continent from East to West, between the
latitudes of 36 & 38 but only in the richest bottom
lands on the river sides. Those lands being now
almost entirely cleared, I know of no remains of
continued on page 13
Vol. XVIII, No. 2
…Gloucester Hickory
these nuts but a very few trees specially preserved in
Gloucester, and some on the Roanoke. In Kentucky
there are still a great many & West of the Missisipi it
is, I believe, their only nut of the Juglans family...I
have not Gronovius’s (or rather Clayton’s) Flora
Virginica to turn to, but he certainly must have
described it, as he lived in Gloucester, & I know that
it grew in his neighborhood.”
John Clayton was the Clerk of Courts for Gloucester
County from 1720 until his death in 1773 and lived just a
few miles from Toddsbury. He was perhaps the best, and
probably the least known, of 18th -century American
botanists. Clayton began sending herbarium specimens to
Mark Catesby in London during the 1730s. Catesby passes
them on to Dr. John Fredrick Gronovius in Lieden Holland
who publishes them, beginning in 1739, as The Flora
Virginica. John Clayton is the only North American botanist
invited by Linnaeus to join the Philosophical Society at
Uppsala, Sweden and the charming little Spring Beauty,
Claytonia virginica, is named in his honor. Clayton sends
hickory specimens to Gronovius three times. Two of them
have been identified at the British Museum of Natural
History as mockernut hickories. The specimen sheet for the
third has never been found although Gronovious references a
Linnaean species number for this sheet from the Species
Planatarum (1753). This identifies the tree as Juglans alba,
since renamed as Carya tomentosa or the mockernut hickory.
There was much confusion as to the identity of this tree at
the time Clayton was collecting specimens, so without the
herbarium sheet it is impossible to know whether or not
Clayton knew or collected this tree.
Later that month, January 1809, Philip Tabb of
Toddsbury in Gloucester County writes to Jefferson:
“I am sorry it is not in my power to send you as
many of the large hickory nuts of this country as you
wished to plant, very few of the best trees are now
left & they produced less than usual the last year &
were soon consumed five only were left by accident
which I now forward. I have not been altogether
inattentive to those nuts since apart of the lands
producing them have been in my possession - I have
planted some of the largest and best which are
growing vigorously & I have little doubt but the
trees raised properly from the nut will be more
productive than those which grow in the woods, for
on clearing the lands & exposing them suddenly
after the tree has matured they become sickly &
unproductive.”
Vol. XVIII, No. 2
Jefferson sends four of the nuts he receives from
Gloucester to McMahon in Philadelphia. He also intends to
obtain nuts from the Roanoke site, which he will send on to
compare with nuts McMahon has from Kentucky. In
February 1809 McMahon thanks Jefferson for the nuts and
says that they do not appear to be the same as the ones he
received from Kentucky and are different than any he had
seen before and asks: “Does this species belong to the walnut
division, or is it a true Hickory?”
In April 1811 Jefferson plants more Gloucester hickories
at Monticello and sends more nuts to McMahon. Finally
there is the February 1812 letter from McMahon to
Jefferson: “I would thank you to inform me whether you take
the Glocester Nut to be a distinct species, as announced by
Mich. f. (Juglans laciniosa) or whether, if only a variety, it is
nearer allied to the Juglans tomentosa Mich. or to the J.
squamosa Mich. fi. the J. alba of his father.” It appears now
that Francois Michaux was correct in his identification.
We all stood around the tree and speculated with Breck
Montaque, the present owner of Toddsbury; could this be
one of the trees Philip Tabb speaks of planting in 1809,
which are growing vigorously? The tree has been reduced to a
single limb growing from a massive, hollow trunk. It is the
biggest trunk on a hickory any of us had ever seen. Perhaps it
is the last living legacy of Philip Tabb.
I contacted Peter Hatch from Monticello about the
Gloucester hickory and it turns out that this is not the first
time this tree has been “discovered.” In 1984 a Mr. Lindley
from Toddsbury showed up at Monticello with a back seat
full of sprouted Gloucester hickories in plastic cups. Peter
was never sure what kind of hickory it was but he planted
quite a few of them at Monticello and believes three of them
are still alive. He also observed that they did not do well on
dry sites. This, in fact, may have been the fate of the
Shellbark hickory in Gloucester County. When Philip Tabb
observes, in the early 19th century, that the tree seems to
decline after being cleared around he is probably referring to
the clearing of forests for crop land. Along with clearing, it
was a common practice in the low country of Gloucester
County to ditch the land for drainage. The Shellbark
hickory, as Jefferson observes, is normally found in
floodplains and rich bottomlands. Apparently, as this habitat
was altered over the centuries, we lost the Shellbark hickory
with the possible exception of the odd tree here and there.
How many more Shellbarks are hiding along the rivers and
wetlands of Gloucester County? No one knows, but the next
time you are up this way in your hip waders; keep your eyes
open!
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Plant Introductions – Chinese Wisteria and Spanish Cork Oak
By James Everett Kibler, Athens, Georgia
“The progress of civilization is always a matter of reclamation.”
– Allen Tate
Illustration from “Garden Shrubs and their Histories”
The tricky business of determining the date of plant introductions is one of
those knotty problems with which garden historians always have to deal. In fact, it
may be the knottiest problem of all. Deal with it, we must, however, because
creating an authentic period garden demands hard-fact dates, or at least probable
ones, in order to determine what plants may have been available for a given
landscape.
In the winter 2002-2003 Magnolia, the lead essay, Michael Reynolds’s “A
History of Fruitland Nurseries,” provides a much-needed chronology for the
establishment of that significant nursery, one which has received more than the usual
attention given Southern nurseries by writers North and South. Mr. Reynolds shows
that the Berckmans purchased half interest in Fruitland in the year 1857 from
Dennis Redmond. Redmond was a plantsman and editor of the Southern Cultivator.
He had bought the land, which was to become the nursery, in the year 1853, and
“began a small nursery business” by 1856, at which time he was growing fruit trees
and some ornamentals. In 1858, the Berckmans became the sole owners of Fruitland
and formed the “Company.”
Reynolds goes on to say that the Berckmans were responsible for introducing
ornamental plants to the South in the nursery’s first twenty-five years. Two of these,
Reynolds writes, are the Spanish cork
oak (Quercus suber) and “it is believed,”
Chinese wisteria (Wisteria sinensis).
These particular attributions would
thus place Southern introduction for
these two plants at no earlier time than
the Berckmans’ arrival there — hence
1857-1858. Reynolds quotes the
National Register of Historic Places
Nomination Form done in 1979 by
the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources as the source for these
introduction attributions.
Fortunately, a Fruitland Nursery
catalogue for 1859 exists in the
University of Georgia Rare Books
Collection. In the catalogue’s small
ornamentals department, it lists neither
Wisteria sinensis
wisteria nor cork oak. This, of course,
is no proof that Fruitland had not begun (CHINESE WISTERIA) E.D. Smith (1827)
to grow it by that date; but the hard
evidence of sales and availability must concern us.
Pomaria Nurseries in South Carolina was begun in 1840. In its first extant
separate catalogue of 1856, the proprietors William and Adam Summer do indeed
list for sale “Wistaria [sic] sinensis — Chinese Glycine vine, with beautiful light blue
flowers — beautiful” at a cost of fifty cents. This price was the same as Pomaria’s five
spirea varieties, its weigelias, its seven boxwood varieties, its buddleyas, azure, red,
and white clematises, its forsythias, scarlet flowing quinces, and its yellow
honeysuckles and four other varieties of Lonicera. At fifty cents, the wisteria in 1856
fell within the cheapest grouping of the nursery’s ornamental plants, which ranged
up to $2.50 and $3. The most expensive of the lot were the Auraucaria imbricata
(“Chile Pine,” or monkey puzzle tree), Cedrus argentea (“African or Silver Cedar”),
Deodar cedar, Cedrus deodora (one of its best sellers), and Cupressus funebris
(“Funereal Cypress” or Chinese mourning cypress). Pomaria’s “Libocedrus chilensis”
or “Chilean Silver Arbovitae,” designated in the catalogue as “new,” ranged in price
from two to three dollars. The point of this comparative price list is that at fifty
cents, Chinese wisteria was likely not a “new” plant at Pomaria in 1856, and
probably by that time “common” enough, certainly with enough nursery stock to
sell in that year. Since the nursery had been up and running for sixteen years at that
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point, the nursery was not new either.
Summer was, like most experienced nurserymen, savvy at telling his customers
when a plant was “new,” by listing it as such in his catalogues. Such designation
encouraged sales to the adventurous gardeners of his time, who, just as they do in
our day, would have enjoyed trying the latest and most unusual introductions.
Supply and demand; the price showed accordingly. As another example, Pomaria’s
extensive rose list of hundreds of varieties gave its standard price as fifty cents, but the
“new French varieties” always cost one dollar. In the Pomaria catalogue for 1857,
Summer had reduced his price for the “Libocedrus chilensis” from three dollars to
two, thus possibly reflecting that its “newness” had worn off.
Therefore, even though Reynolds states that “it is believed that Berckmans
introduced Chinese wisteria (Wisteria senensis) to the South through Fruitland
Nurseries,” given the Berckmans’ arrival there no earlier than 1857, and Pomaria’s
listing of it for sale in 1856, this cannot be the case. Chinese wisteria had preceded
the Berckmans’ own move to the South
Precisely when did Chinese wisteria come to Dixie? We cannot know exactly,
but from the hard evidence of the Pomaria catalogue, we do know that it was being
offered for sale in South Carolina no later than 1856, out of the Pomaria Nurseries
catalogue, and that at that time, it was probably not considered “new” or all that
unusual. The “Chinese Glycine vine,” as the Summer brothers often called it, was to
remain a staple in the extant Pomaria catalogues of 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861
and onward.
What is so wonderfully significant about the Pomaria Nurseries in the annals
of American plant history is that there exist the nursery sales ledgers from fall 1859
to early 1863. In the ledger pages are recorded sales of the “Wistaria sinensis” to
Columbia, Florence, Bluffton, Ashepoo Bridge, Manniry, Gadsden, and New Bury
in South Carolina and Flat Rock and Asheville in North Carolina, certainly among
the early proven places in the South to grow a vine now romantically associated with
the region and her gardens. “Wistaria alba vera” (a white version of some sort) went
from Pomaria Nurseries to Columbia and Chester, South Carolina, and was never
advertised for sale in the Pomaria catalogues. “Wistaria frutescens” (probably the
native wisteria) went to Limestone Springs and Society Hill, South Carolina.
Again using the National Register Nomination for Fruitland as his source,
Reynolds writes that Berckmans introduced and “developed the Spanish cork oak
(Quercus suber) and he obtained a patent for the tree in 1860.” Again, we must refer
to the 1858 Pomaria catalogue, which lists Quercus suber. There, Summer gives its
price as $1.50, in the mid-range of tree prices, and does not designate it as “new.”
Ledger sales for Quercus suber show that Pomaria sent the cork oak to Greensboro,
Georgia, and in South Carolina to Barnwell, Limestone Springs, Abbeville, Camden,
and Columbia. Even if Berckman held a patent for the tree in 1860, Pomaria
continued to sell it in 1862 and 1863 in South Carolina and Georgia.
Because it was listed for sale in the Pomaria catalogue of 1858, the cork oak
was already available to buyers in the Deep South at the time of the Berckmans’
arrival at Fruitland. From the evidence of Pomaria Nurseries, the time of
introduction of the tree to the Deep South must thus be pushed back a good many
years. In South Carolina, at least, it definitely falls within a solid antebellum time
frame. Again, I also suspect the cork oak must have had an earlier introduction even
than this. For example, Thomas Jefferson made mention of planting the tree. Betts
and Hatch (1986) note that he grew it as early as 1812.
Note: Dr. Kibler’s article on Adam and William Summer of Pomaria, and
their achievement as nature writers, appeared in South Carolina Wildlife Magazine
(November-December 2002), 32-37.
Dr. Kibler has contributed the following articles for Magnolia:
On reclaiming a southern antebellum garden heritage: an introduction to
Pomaria nurseries, 1840-1879, vol. 10, no1, fall 1993.
The native serviceberry in antebellum southern gardens, vol. 13, no. 1, winter
1997.
Antebellum azalea and camellia varieties in southern gardens, vol. 14, no. 1,
spring 1998.
Vol. XVIII, No. 2
The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Program Opens the
Gate to the Best Private Gardens in America
A furtive peek over the privet
will no longer be such a
maddening temptation when
you are allowed to explore some
of the best private gardens in
the United States. During its
ninth season, the Garden
Conservancy’s Open Days
Program will share nearly 400
private gardens in 22 states
including Florida, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
Virginia, and West Virginia.
Among the many listed for 2003, visitors can see the
Hughes Garden in Memphis, Tennessee, which has a collection of
antique garden pieces ranging from old terracotta columns to
ornate iron gates. Numerous gardens in Texas will be open,
including the Nokes family garden in Austin (the creation of
garden writer Jill Nokes) and the inner city garden of SGHS
members Peter and Julie Schaar in Dallas.
The 2003 Open Days Directory, a soft-cover book that
includes detailed driving directions and vivid descriptions of each
garden written by their owners, costs $15.95 ($10.95 for Garden
Conservancy members) plus $4.50 for shipping. The Directory also
will include a free admission coupon off (valued at $5). Call the
Garden Conservancy toll free at (888) 842-2442, to order with
Visa or Master Card, or send a check or money order to: the
Garden Conservancy, P.O. Box 219, Cold Spring, NY 10516.
Visit the Conservancy and its Open Days Program Online at:
www.gardenconservancy.org
Members in the News
highlighting the gardens of Monticello, the pavilion gardens of the
University of Virginia, and the Thomas Jefferson Center for
Historic Plants in and near Charlottesville.
SGHS member Valencia Libby has received a Fulbright
scholarship: the Fulbright FLAD Chair in the History of Landscape
Architecture for autumn 2003. The award, which is under the
category of Distinguished American Lecturer, will allow Valencia
to teach and advise a new program in landscape architecture at the
University of the Algarve in Faro, Portugal. Val, a landscape
historian and specialist in public horticulture, will also consult with
regional museums and historic sites while overseas.
photo by Allen Rokach in Southern Living
“Reclaiming a Family Garden,” by former SGHS president and
honorary board member William C. Welch appears in the March
2003 issue of Southern Living magazine’s Texas edition on Mary
Anne and Bob Pickens garden in Columbus, Texas. Their garden
and home are on property near the site of the old Pearfield
Nursery, which was founded in the early 1800s by Mary Anne’s
great-grandfather J. F. Leyendecker. Mary Anne currently serves on
the SGHS board.
above, left: Rain lily stars in this field of colorful wildflowers. above, middle: Mary Anne
and Bob Pickens kneel on their lawn of coreopsis and Indian paintbrush in front of a
pergola of ‘Fortuniana’ roses. above, right: This climbing Lady Banks’s rose flourishes with
little care on a weathered trellis.
The spring 2003 issue of People Places & Plants magazine contains
an article by Paula Deroy entitled “Back in Time: Virginia’s
Heirloom Country Gives Gardeners A History Lesson,”
Vol. XVIII, No. 2
“Playing Garden Sleuth,” an article by Nan Chase, appeared in the
March/April 2003 issue of Old-House Journal. The author
interviewed a number of SGHS members and noted garden
historians, including Colonial Williamsburg’s Wesley Greene;
Susan Hitchcock, landscape historian for the National Park Service
in Atlanta; Scott Kunst, owner of Old House Gardens in Ann
Arbor, Michigan; Monticello’s Peggy Cornett; Chuck Gleaves,
director of the Kingwood Center in Madison, Ohio; and Bill
Finch, who writes about garden history for Alabama’s Mobile
Register.
In Print
English Pleasure Gardens, by Rose Standish Nichols. David R.
Godine, publisher. Hardcover, 256 pages. ISBN 1-56792-232-5,
2003, $21.95
Boston publisher David R. Godine is issuing in a new
edition Rose Standish Nichols’s first book, English Pleasure Gardens
(1902), with an introduction by Judith B. Tankard, in March
2003. When English Pleasure Gardens was first published exactly a
century ago, it was instantly acclaimed as a resource for gardeners,
tourists, and history lovers alike. This new edition will introduce a
new generation to the pageantry of Britain’s garden heritage and to
the redoubtable Rose S. Nichols, who hailed from Boston’s Beacon
Hill, was among our earliest professional garden designers, and was
nationally recognized fro her expertise with native plants and
residential garden design. Her designs derived from English formal
gardens, but her planting style was American in spirit. Her gardens
have disappeared, but her legacy survives in her writings. Judith
Tankard’s introduction includes a brief client list for Ms. Nichols,
whose Southern commissions include “The Morningside,” for
Alfred S. Bourne in Augusta, Georgia. For further information, go
to www.godine.com and click on “Titles in Preparation.”
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